Celebrations halted by UK welcome of 2021 and the world bids farewell to a ‘different’ year | UK News

Welcoming the UK in 2021, saying goodbye for a year, was strange, difficult or worse in recent memories for many.

Used by Big Penn’s hours – an hour after the end of the Brexit era – the country’s clock – thousands of people would usually line the street below to see the dazzling display of firecrackers.

Across the country, bars and pubs full of people singing and celebrating the Old Long Sign 365 days ago were empty and quiet.

Westminster Bridge was not empty and despite warnings to stay away from authorities, car horns sounded as midnight approached, with a few people setting off their own crackers.

In Edinburgh, Hokmane is one of the most anticipated of this year’s festivals, with only small groups on the streets usually gathering with spectators.

A young woman with four people from the same house told Sky News: “We look forward to the New Year and it should be better.”

Another said: “You have to put in a positive turn. There is no point in being negative. New year … there is a vaccine, everything is fine.”

Previously, with England COVID-19 Cases have reached a very high daily level, with one of the UK’s top doctors risking “spreading further” by meeting “close and large groups” to “do not add fuel to the fire”.

The government ran advertisements begging the public to “look home safely in the New Year”.

Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon told his fellow countrymen to “mark this New Year responsibly and in accordance with the rules … that is, no meetings, no house parties, no first steps”.

Although screenings were canceled in London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Liverpool, there were a few other places before midnight with fireworks at St James’ Park in Newcastle and a light show at Iron Bridge in Shropshire.

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Across the planet, the event was celebrated in open-air meetings in ways that were usually most disabled due to the control of epidemics.

Unable to snack in the presence of friends or strangers by the end of 2020, millions of people were forced to return to TV-made fireworks displays or call it early in the night.

Nevertheless, in contrast to the countries that have locks or restrictions on various countries around the world, New Zealand and many of its South Pacific island neighbors, which have no active COVID cases, conducted their regular New Year activities.

Australia was next to the ring in 2021, with seven minutes of pyrotechnics illuminating the Sydney Harbor Bridge, but many called from officials to stay home, thus making it quieter than the surrounding area.

Although South Korea has canceled its annual bell-ringing ceremony for the first time since 1953, North Korea has continued its celebrations in Pyongyang, with state media showing masked occupants filling the main square for a concert and fireworks.

In the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the epidemic began a year ago, large numbers of people took to the streets. When the clock of the old Hanko Customs House building struck midnight, many cheered and released balloons into the air.

One, Yang Wenchuan, a 20-year-old student and tourist, said: “I am incredibly happy. (In 2021) I hope to be able to get my bachelor’s degree and find a boyfriend.”

On December 31, Dubai, one of the world’s most famous destinations, unveiled its plans despite an increase in epidemics, with Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower, crushing tens of thousands of people down the streets by fireworks.

In France, 100,000 police officers took to the streets to enforce a nationwide curfew.

In New York, as usual, police erected a fence around Times Square to prevent people from gathering to drop the ball.

Visitors will have a few dozen pre-selected key staff, including nurses, doctors, a food store employee and a pizza delivery man – whose families are placed two meters apart in community remote pens.

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Pressing the button to start the descent of the crystal ball, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio summed up the mood: “It’s really, arguably, the most special, the most bitter, the most moving New Year’s celebration.

“In 2021, we’re going to show people how to recover and come back.”